Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KETSBY

KETSBY, a hamlet in South Ormsby parish, Lincoln; 5¼ miles W of Alford. Acres, 650. Pop., 60. It was anciently a parish; and it still ranks as a rectory, annexed to the rectory of South Ormsby, in the diocese of Lincoln. A water mill here is mentioned in Domesday book.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Ketsby

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